May 28, 2019
Posts By: Rebecca Barnes
May 24, 2019
When climate change makes life untenable, what do you do? You move.
May 22, 2019
Presbyterian advocacy for carbon pricing gains wide support
Written by Robert Taylor, retired PC(USA) pastor and volunteer with Citizens Climate Lobby Last June commissioners at the 223rd General Assembly voted to have our denomination become advocates for a climate policy solution called carbon fee and dividend. Shortly after the GA’s action a bipartisan bill incorporating this approach was introduced into the 115th Congress…. Read more »
April 22, 2019
Learning from Environmental Justice (EJ) Communities
By Sue Smith Sue Smith is a member of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness and Stated Clerk of Monmouth Presbytery. She is grateful to her colleagues in the Coalition for Healthy Ports for teaching her everything she knows about environmental racism. I was invited to the March Mission Responsibility Through Investment Committee (MRTI) meeting…. Read more »
April 12, 2019
Celebrating 50 years of the Presbyterian Hunger Program!
This spring’s PHP Post has the theme of “Celebrating 50 years!” Read reflections from Sara Lisherness (Director of Compassion, Peace and Justice for the Presbyterian Mission Agency), from Colleen Shannon (one of the earliest PHP Coordinators), and from each of the PHP Associates on how their life journeys have been woven with the PHP ministries… Read more »
April 10, 2019
Gratitude for One Great Hour of Sharing
To those living in famine in Africa and the Middle East, your gift to One Great Hour of Sharing makes a difference. To widows learning how to fight for land titles to stay on their deceased husband’s land so they may continue to care for their farm and family, your gift makes a difference. To… Read more »
April 5, 2019
Presbyterians, Plastics, and God’s Creation
Presbyterians have been making statements about being careful of our use of natural resources since the 1950s. Particularly in the last few decades, churches, youth groups and families are becoming ever more mindful about our consumption and it’s effect on God’s creation. We encourage bringing cloth bags to the grocery store, toting around refillable water… Read more »
March 4, 2019
Presbytery of the Yukon and Caring for God’s Creation
January 29, 2019
In Support of the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2018
December 13, 2018